Goat Fest 2026: Canada's Ultimate Hot Sauce Festival Is Back!
About this Event
🔥 Get ready, Kitchener. Goat Fest returns to the legendary Concordia Club on Saturday, October 3 2026, for its biggest, loudest and hottest year yet!
☀️ DAYTIME SESSION | 11 AM TO 5 PM | ALL AGES
The daytime session is a full festival experience for the whole family.
Taste your way through 30+ hot sauce makers, including one of Canada’s largest collections of sauces featured on Hot Ones. Cool down with 15+ craft breweries, feast on incredible food, hit the Caesar and oyster bars, catch live wrestling, experience Touch a Truck and take in the official KW Oktoberfest keg tapping.
Meet Smokin’ Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Hot Ones fan favourite Camera Guy Bill, competitive eating legend Mike Jack and some of the biggest names in hot sauce.
Best of all, kids under 12 are FREE during the daytime session!
🌙 EVENING SESSION | 6 PM TO 11 PM | 19+
When the sun goes down, the volume goes way up.
The evening session brings more wrestling, spicy challenges, cold craft beer and a full lineup of live music, capped off by multi-JUNO Award-nominated rock duo The Blue Stones. 🎸🔥
Goat Fest is also proud to raise funds and support for the Waterloo Region Health Network.
📅 Saturday, October 3
📍 Concordia Club, Kitchener
☀️ Daytime: 11 AM to 5 PM | All ages | Kids under 12 free
🌙 Evening: 6 PM to 11 PM | 19+
🎟️ Tickets on sale NOW!
Tell your friends, mark your calendars and get ready for one unforgettable day of heat, beer, food, wrestling and rock and roll.
P.S. Yes, we’ll have FREE milk...You’re going to need it. 🥛🔥
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 13.54 to CAD 91.77
